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Since May 1st, certain traffic violations are more expensive. The organ mandate costs immediately 100 euros instead of 50 eurosif motorists* at the Calling with the mobile phone without hands-free equipment get caught while driving. If the payment is refused or if the driver gropes into one with his cell phone in his hand Radar flaresthat can up to 140 Euro costs. So far there have been 72 Euro.
Reporting instead of punishment demanded
In the past year 130,540 Links*in reported for telephoning at the wheel without a hands-free device or punished on the spot by means of a penal order. For Armin Kaltenegger, head of the legal department in the Board of Trustees for Road Safety (KFV), the higher penalties are not enough. He demanded that the violations can be punished in the future like other offenses and that a stop is not necessary.
